SuperSoft HRx - Versuch eines Neubaus

    Contents of the EPROM are good -sadly with these old computers surface corrosion and socket "memory" are very common as you know. Back in the day it where everything was much fresher I guess these connectivity issues were not so frequent. Now everything has surface oxidation on it and the connections in IC sockets are not that great.


    Andy

    I tested it a little bit further now:

    No interferences whatsoever!








    Only with drawing (SL, DL) I get the weird dots and lines…



    The more I loop one and the same line, the worse it gets, till it looks like that:

    Funny though - put the HR-40B in the same PET as the HSG board … with the motherboard link disabled (J1 I think) to the HSG board the HR-40B board will initialise fine. If the HSG switch is set to display the PET screen only, it works, if it the switch is in the middle the screen just blanks.


    why would you do that a lot would say …. well … why not.

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    It seems using basic is fine but fast machine code isn’t. Have you checked all of you 74LS chips ?


    I have now tried the replica board in 3 different motherboards and it works provided all surface oxidation has been removed.

    Zitat von AndyG

    It seems using basic is fine but fast machine code isn’t. Have you checked all of you 74LS chips ?


    I have now tried the replica board in 3 different motherboards and it works provided all surface oxidation has been removed.

    Hi Andy,


    sorry for my late reply- haven't tested yet, due to lack of 74LS chips. :(

    Richi and me are planning the next session together, so it shouldn't take too long.


    In that case I don't think oxidation could be the fault, right?

    Two boards -> exact same problem / basic poke works just fine


    Best regards,

    Matthias

    So Richi has the same problem - I thought his board worked fine or have you built up two boards with the same IC components ?

    Yeah, my HR40b is working fine! I think he means the (still not working HR40) and the HR40b? I think he still is working on a HR80, so a lot of things to do :D


    BTW: I just used about 50% of LS components. Mixed with S and HCT and it works fine.

    HR40 in 3032 is working fine!


    HR40b still has issues with dots and small lines, no LS IC swap, because no other parts.

    I have to drive to Richi and swap all the ICs till it runs. ;)


    HR80 not tested yet. :)

    Ok, I have written a machine code program that reads the bits from the image on the Supersoft board and creates the high res plotting characters needed for the 8023p. These are saved in memory right now so I can test the accuracy of the output using a basic program to read each byte and output it to the printer etc.


    I need to merge the basic program into the machine code routine but below is what it printed for the hat.


    I think I can print direct from machine code but need to test.


    Zitat von AndyG

    It should be but will do the 8023p first and the the 4022

    4022 is missing one needle compared to 8023P/MPP1361, if I remember correctly.

    That's the reason why CBM HSG with 4022 has to be adapted "manually" via software.

    Zitat von CBM_Ba
    Zitat von AndyG

    It should be but will do the 8023p first and the the 4022

    4022 is missing one needle compared to 8023P/MPP1361, if I remember correctly.

    That's the reason why CBM HSG with 4022 has to be adapted "manually" via software.

    Think I have got an integrated print for the 8023p … Will test bit more and post here for you to try.


    Then I can adjust how the matrix of special characters is built and the way it is printed….. the time spent has been on taking the image and creating custom characters and writing machine code to output to the printer.

    Attached are prints from the supersoft board using my machine code routine … have figured out how to break down the analysis of the hr images into 7x6 sections for the special characters in the 4022 and actually the 8023p has the same feature … will modify the code now for that mode of operation and see how well it works.


    Success got the 4022 to print hi res graphics from the Supersoft board .. but of cleaning up logic needed as 7 doesn't go into 200 evenly so it has some errant characters at the bottom of the page. The code ignores spaces to improve printing speeds.


    Will post shortly... just want to can up the logic on printing the last line ... just need to set the first 4 bits to zero as remaining 3 will be from the HR board... i

    Fixed the over print at the end where Y = 0 and found another issue with printing bits with X coords 319. Fixed that too. Try this code.


    It loads at $7E00 so I use TIM to load it.


    Then exit to basic and type


    POKE 52,0 : POKE 53,126 : CLR


    If you use DLOAD then you need to type NEW after issuing the POKE commands.


    To print to the 4022 printer type SYS 32256


    It assumes the HR graphics card is enabled and an image has been loaded.

    graphix4022.zip


    Hope it works for you

    AndyG


    Thanks so much! It should work with the 3032 + HR40, right? :)

    Will test that tomorrow, have to connect my 4022 and see if it's working.

    Was way too busy the last few days.


    Does this also work with 3022 printer? I don't think so...


    Best regards,

    Matthias

    Andy, is it possible to do a screen hardcopy and save it to disk/petSD?


    Should be easy, or am I wrong? "Just" save the content in memory location M9000 - M9xxx and load it later via TIM?

    Zitat von CBM_Ba

    Andy, is it possible to do a screen hardcopy and save it to disk/petSD?


    Should be easy, or am I wrong? "Just" save the content in memory location M9000 - M9xxx and load it later via TIM?

    Yes, I do that frequently. what I do is create the image, then drop into TIM save the file to PETsd+ using memory address range $9000 - $AFFF….


    You can then Reload them back…. From TIM. You do overwrite some drawing parameters so if you want to create a new drawing then re-initialise the board to reset them before drawing to be safe.


    The 3032 will work if you are running Basic 4

    It should work with the 3022 printer but the line spacing will be different. Try the 4022 first .. I don’t have a 3022 now …. Did 30 years ago

    Zitat von CBM_Ba

    YEAH! Will do an intense testing-afternoon tomorrow!


    3022/4022/4022P/8023P and 1361MPP are ready to pierce tons of paper, sir! :D

    To change the line spacing try POKE 32506,x .... x=21 for 4022 and 18 for 3022. Location 32506 = $7EFA